Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When gunfire ripped through downtown Belfast last week, office workers on their lunch break responded with weary resignation, learned from years of living dangerously. For twelve days Irish Republican Army terrorists had gone on a shooting spree, gunning down five people. By the grim rules of Northern Ireland's...
A FIRST testing of the notoriously xenophobic Adams House waters brings little response, where, it seems, the question has been asked before. But Mr. DuFour is non-plussed by the notorious Adams rule--which still requires dinner sponsors. He points to the proximity of the House to the Yard and...
"Each house is unique," says Adams House manager Paul DuFour.
But across the board accords remain elusive. Quincy manager Joe Micucci briskly calls out that house's rule: "50 the first hour, 50 the second," "go look at Adams," he adds.
The well-muscled too fall victim to the exclusionary rules, quick to turn away the many yearning to eat free. For if beneficence is paramount before 6:15, afterwards, the Houses themselves are yearning to be Adams.